Michael Schulman interviews Maya Rudolph about opening for Alanis Morissette, playing Beyoncé and Kamala Harris on “S.N.L.,” and seeing her mom onstage.
Wind back the decades and you get a very different song: the tender, sensual ballad “Lovin’ You,” sung by the soul soprano Minnie Riperton. Riperton wrote it with her husband, Richard Rudolph, and first performed it, the story goes, as a lullaby to baby Maya, their daughter . When it came out, in 1974, on an album co-produced by Stevie Wonder, it became Riperton’s biggest hit. Not long after, Riperton was given a dire breast-cancer diagnosis.
So it’s funny that I was so inspired by it, because as a kid I fucking hated everybody looking at my mother. She also had this superpower of singing in the whistle register. I imagine seeing audiences reacting to that was its own special thing. It’s not something I possess. It’s not something that anybody can just walk around and do. It’s an extraordinary gift. And not just that she could hit the notes but the way it became a part of her and of her performance. They’re really unique songs.
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